A new one hour documentary for BBC Two and iPlayer will tell the story of Andrew Malkinson and the devastating effect of the years he spent in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
On the morning of 2 August 2003 there’s a knock on Andrew Malkinson’s door.
It’s Greater Manchester Police, there to arrest him for the violent attack and rape of a young woman in Salford. Andrew is adamant he hasn’t done it but the police are certain he matches the victim’s description of the attacker. Convinced that everything will be cleared up once he gets to the police station, Andrew takes part in a video lineup.
But the victim identifies him in the lineup as the man who attacked her and Andrew is charged with attempted murder and rape. Just over six months later a jury finds him guilty of rape and sentences him to life in prison. He begins his life sentence on the sex offenders wing in HMP Frankland on 30 March 2004.
With exclusive access to Andrew, his family and his legal team, this powerful film tells the extraordinary story of his fight to prove his innocence, from the moment of his arrest to his exoneration at the Court of Appeal twenty years later. Filmed over three years, from the day he walks out of prison, Directors Jemma Gander and Fran Robertson follow Andrew and his legal team as they take on the criminal justice system to overturn his conviction.
The documentary airs on BBC2 at 9.00pm on 6th June and on I-Player
